Season Eight, Event 35: 40 Minute Descent Champions

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Pretty new to racing, but I've done a few 40 min Descent Champions runs now, ending between level 17-20.

However, I made 3 chars this race, none of whom made it far at all. There was a rogue exile at the beginning of Rasping Halls that appeared to be using some super long range incinerate that basically instakilled my first two chars. I ran like fuck on my third when I saw him and ended up going into freezing chamber to escape, where I encountered a large blue pack that froze me until I died.

The third death I understand, but wtf is with the power of that exile, and why was he in all 3 of my rasping halls? Do the same exiles spawn for all players in the same zones, or was I just unlucky? Have encountered rogues in the previous races, but none that just deleted me that early in the race.

Pretty new to racing, but I've done a few 40 min Descent Champions runs now, ending between level 17-20.

However, I made 3 chars this race, none of whom made it far at all. There was a rogue exile at the beginning of Rasping Halls that appeared to be using some super long range incinerate that basically instakilled my first two chars. I ran like fuck on my third when I saw him and ended up going into freezing chamber to escape, where I encountered a large blue pack that froze me until I died.

The third death I understand, but wtf is with the power of that exile, and why was he in all 3 of my rasping halls? Do the same exiles spawn for all players in the same zones, or was I just unlucky? Have encountered rogues in the previous races, but none that just deleted me that early in the race.

Exiles appear in several areas, reliably. I usually just drop a Decoy Totem for Flame-o and run. =^[.]^=

Pretty new to racing, but I've done a few 40 min Descent Champions runs now, ending between level 17-20.

However, I made 3 chars this race, none of whom made it far at all. There was a rogue exile at the beginning of Rasping Halls that appeared to be using some super long range incinerate that basically instakilled my first two chars. I ran like fuck on my third when I saw him and ended up going into freezing chamber to escape, where I encountered a large blue pack that froze me until I died.

The third death I understand, but wtf is with the power of that exile, and why was he in all 3 of my rasping halls? Do the same exiles spawn for all players in the same zones, or was I just unlucky? Have encountered rogues in the previous races, but none that just deleted me that early in the race.

I know who you are talking about but he's never been an issue for me. His incinerate does high dmg if it stacks but if you run around and hit him hard (for your lvl) his pitiful hp means that he dies easily.

For me the main problem was desync. It's hard to level when it takes three times as long for the server to realise the mobs are dead than it takes for you to kill them.

Pretty new to racing, but I've done a few 40 min Descent Champions runs now, ending between level 17-20.

However, I made 3 chars this race, none of whom made it far at all. There was a rogue exile at the beginning of Rasping Halls that appeared to be using some super long range incinerate that basically instakilled my first two chars. I ran like fuck on my third when I saw him and ended up going into freezing chamber to escape, where I encountered a large blue pack that froze me until I died.

The third death I understand, but wtf is with the power of that exile, and why was he in all 3 of my rasping halls? Do the same exiles spawn for all players in the same zones, or was I just unlucky? Have encountered rogues in the previous races, but none that just deleted me that early in the race.

I know who you are talking about but he's never been an issue for me. His incinerate does high dmg if it stacks but if you run around and hit him hard (for your lvl) his pitiful hp means that he dies easily.

For me the main problem was desync. It's hard to level when it takes three times as long for the server to realise the mobs are dead than it takes for you to kill them.

Maybe later in the race he isn't a problem, but I was level 4 with no corals or any other hp/resist items. He cast the incinerate and I died.